Structure prediction drives materials discovery

AR Oganov, CJ Pickard, Q Zhu, RJ Needs - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Progress in the discovery of new materials has been accelerated by the development of
reliable quantum-mechanical approaches to crystal structure prediction. The properties of a …

Advances in materials and applications of inorganic electrides

H Hosono, M Kitano - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrides are materials in which electrons serve as anions. Here, the concept of inorganic
electrides is extended in several respects: from ionic crystals to intermetallic compounds in …

Chemistry under high pressure

M Miao, Y Sun, E Zurek, H Lin - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Thanks to the development of experimental high-pressure techniques and methods for
crystal-structure prediction based on quantum mechanics, in the past decade, numerous …

Materials discovery at high pressures

L Zhang, Y Wang, J Lv, Y Ma - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Pressure is a fundamental thermodynamic variable that can be used to control the properties
of materials, because it reduces interatomic distances and profoundly modifies electronic …

Crystal structure prediction via deep learning

K Ryan, J Lengyel, M Shatruk - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate the application of deep neural networks as a machine-learning tool for the
analysis of a large collection of crystallographic data contained in the crystal structure …

Crystal structure prediction via efficient sampling of the potential energy surface

Y Wang, J Lv, P Gao, Y Ma - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The crystal structure prediction (CSP) has emerged in recent years as a major
theme in research across many scientific disciplines in physics, chemistry, materials science …

High-temperature superconductivity in alkaline and rare earth polyhydrides at high pressure: A theoretical perspective

E Zurek, T Bi - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The theoretical exploration of the phase diagrams of binary hydrides under pressure using
ab initio crystal structure prediction techniques coupled with first principles calculations has …

Establishing gold and platinum standards to 1 terapascal using shockless compression

DE Fratanduono, M Millot, DG Braun, SJ Ali… - Science, 2021 - science.org
New techniques are advancing the frontier of high-pressure physics beyond 1 terapascal,
leading to new discoveries and offering stringent tests for condensed-matter theory and …

Series of crystals with giant optical anisotropy: a targeted strategic research

T Tong, W Zhang, Z Yang, S Pan - … Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The main commercially used birefringent oxides α‐BaB2O4 and YVO4 have the
birefringences of 0.12 and 0.22. We propose a targeted high‐throughput screening system …

The periodic table and the physics that drives it

P Schwerdtfeger, OR Smits, P Pyykkö - Nature reviews chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Mendeleev's introduction of the periodic table of elements is one of the most important
milestones in the history of chemistry, as it brought order into the known chemical and …